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what does it mean when I followed the asshook conversation with less effort than the Tolkin conversation.
Joyce: Dawn, you be good. Xander: We will. Just gonna play with some matches, run with scissors, take candy from some guy, I don't know his name.
'Beneath You'
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beth b - Jul 13, 2009 10:31:11 am PDT #16467 of 30000
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
StuntHusband - Jul 13, 2009 10:31:30 am PDT #16468 of 30000
Electromagnetic candy! - Stark
Of course, it probably depends on how much that family on the human side intermarried.
I'm not sure it's delineated; Tolkien was (apparently; the MSS of "The Silmarillion" are unrevealed at this point, so what we have is filtered through Christopher's editing) taking a very broad, Biblical-style approach to those begettings. Long lines of ruling Kings and Queens, but nothing else about their families. The presumption is that, since the lifespans go from Methuselah (almost exactly - 900-some-odd for Elros Tar-Minyatur) to the "lesser" Mannish of about 80, the ruling line had married outside of the nobility extensively.
I think Tolkien wasn't concerned about consanguinity; they're effectively different *species*. :) Humans, and "what humans should be".
smonster - Jul 13, 2009 10:34:45 am PDT #16469 of 30000
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.
what does it mean when I followed the asshook conversation with less effort than the Tolkin conversation.
ilu, beth.
Gudanov - Jul 13, 2009 10:36:56 am PDT #16470 of 30000
Coding and Sleeping
Well, the word asshook is fairly self-explanatory.
StuntHusband - Jul 13, 2009 10:40:00 am PDT #16471 of 30000
Electromagnetic candy! - Stark
Well, the word asshook is fairly self-explanatory.
Are you suggesting...?
Ahem. Well, you'd be right, of course.
Volans - Jul 13, 2009 10:41:28 am PDT #16472 of 30000
move out and draw fire
Well, the word asshook is fairly self-explanatory.
And also the name of one of the Orc chieftains in LotR.
Jessica - Jul 13, 2009 10:41:40 am PDT #16473 of 30000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Now we just need someone to translate the word "asshook" into Sindarin and we'll have come full circle.
Dana - Jul 13, 2009 10:43:20 am PDT #16474 of 30000
I haven't trusted science since I saw the film "Flubber."
Oh, god, stop talking about asshooks!
t gouges out own eyes, Oedipus-style
StuntHusband - Jul 13, 2009 10:51:46 am PDT #16475 of 30000
Electromagnetic candy! - Stark
Now we just need someone to translate the word "asshook" into Sindarin and we'll have come full circle.
...what makes you think I haven't *tried*?
(un?)fortunately, the Professor left nothing anatomically-appropriate. Lots of "hands" and "eyes" and "heads" and "feet" and "hair" and "hearts" and such. No asses.
It's like old Trek - no bathrooms. They didn't NEED them? Elves don't s(h)it?
Atropa - Jul 13, 2009 10:51:52 am PDT #16476 of 30000
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
I'm just going to sit here and watch SH get his geek on, with other geeks! Because I can vaguely follow the Tolkien conversation, but that's mostly due to years of hanging out with SH.